What if our income was taxed ... totally differently?

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

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We are back to answer YOUR listener questions. This time, we answer why bananas can be considered the 'unbothered fruit', what a flat income tax would actually look like, and how extended-hours stock trading works. If you have your own question about the economy, please email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:04.0	Welcome to...
0:13.0	Listener questions.
0:17.5	Three listener questions, zero competition.
0:21.4	Reland, that doesn't actually sound like an appealing pitch.
0:24.2	Let me try. I can do this.
0:26.3	Oh, hello, Robert Smith.
0:28.1	Hello, how about this?
0:30.1	Three listener questions all explained into your very ears.
0:36.4	Okay, let's go with that.
0:37.8	This is the indicator from Planet Money, I'm Derrym Woods.
0:41.5	Today we answer your questions that you, the listeners, have sent in.
0:46.0	We are taking on the resilient banana, a flat rate income tax, and stock trading all night long.
0:53.2	All night long.
0:57.1	That's all coming up after the break.
1:04.0	This message comes from Wise, the app for doing things in other currencies.
1:08.4	Sending or spending money abroad, hidden fees may be taking a cut.
1:12.8	With Wise, you can convert between up to 40 currencies at the mid-market exchange rate. Visit wise.com. TNCs apply. All right, well, then your question is up first. It comes
1:20.8	from Tiffany Green. My question is about bananas. Can we talk about how they stay so cheap? No matter
1:27.3	the time of year, the crazy
1:29.1	inflated prices of other foods or weather disruptions, it never seems to bother bananas.
1:35.0	They're a very unbothered fruit. The unbothered fruit. So poetic. I know. It got me thinking
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